![]() Amanda Holden and Dan Jones deliver a not-so-subtle history of human sexuality featuring such insights as “the ancient Egyptians would do anything to get their rocks off”.Ĭharlton Heston directs and stars in this vastly underrated thriller, which also launched the career of The Natural’s Kim Basinger. If you think the height of sexual sophistication is a saucy postcard or a Carry On film, this is the history series for you. At times it’s more tourism video than travelogue, but it will convince many to dust off their walking boots. Tonight, she scoots breathlessly from Pembrokeshire to the Cairngorms via the Yorkshire Dales and the Peak District. The UK’s National Parks with Caroline QuentinĬovering all of Britain’s national parks in one four-part series might seem ambitious but Caroline Quentin is up for it. This edition sets out to recreate the in-air experience of the Battle of Britain, as fighter planes clash in the skies above England.Ĭontinuing her assessment of Boris Johnson’s premiership, Kuenssberg (the BBC’s former political editor) explores how the optimism wrought by the 2019 landslide election victory for the Conservatives was undone by the pandemic, and a radical approach to reform saw relationships between ministers and civil servants break down. More reconstructions woven from archive footage and aerial reconnaissance photos as the innovative series returns for a second run. He starts at the southern outpost of Stewart Island with a pioneering fisherman, before visiting a farmer diversifying into whisky. For newbies, snippets about Ramsay Street’s history are threaded into the opening episodes, plus there’s a new family, a dramatic wedding and more scenes with the ever-loyal Guy Pearce.įood innovation, sustainability and spectacular scenery are the themes as Doherty embarks on a trip round New Zealand. Freevee has revived it pretty much intact. If you were among those who mourned when Channel 5 axed the long-running Aussie soap, weep no more. This is a comedy that couldn’t have been made anywhere but Britain in 2023. ![]() But it is the inventiveness of the delivery – from surreal split-second jump-cuts and sight gags to hugely entertaining set pieces – that gives Juice both its irresistible charm, constant sense of surprise and a razor-sharp cutting edge. The script and characters are easily funny enough to make this a very successful sitcom. Mostly, as it happens, it’s on his therapist boyfriend Guy (Russell Tovey, on superb form) but also his constantly bickering parents (real-life mother Shahnaz Rizwan and Jeff Mirza) and his easy-achiever brother Isaac (Nabhaan Rizwan). Rizwan plays chaotic ad agency junior Jamma, whose mind is forever anywhere but on the job. ![]() Written by and starring Mawaan Rizwan (familiar from appearances in Sky’s Two Weeks to Live as well as Live at the Apollo and Taskmaster) Juice is almost impossible to categorise: part romcom, part surreal clownfest in the manner of Fringe favourite Spencer Jones or even Miranda. The most uninhibitedly inventive comedy to hit our screens this year (it makes even the wonderful Colin from Accounts look conventional) and one of the funniest. ![]()
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